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Example Sentences
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Gustavo Arellano: There’s a saying in Spanish: no tener pelos en la lengua.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2018
We have the high authority of Sancho for saying,— "Para dar y tener Seso ha menester."
From Castilian Days by John Hay
Thus animated by her own self-approval, Aunt Rachel, sometimes in scorn, sometimes in tenderness, but of tener in triumph, walked homeward, waited the due time, and walked back to church again.
From Aunt Rachel by David Christie Murray
These he made living,—Florence asked no more: and "Credette Cimabue nella pintura tener lo campo."
From Mornings in Florence by John Ruskin
They must have been in bad straits, because Estudillo found them living deep in the swamp, in a "gran Bolson de Tule, sin poder tener lumbre."
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Sherburne F. Cook
